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- noun Plural form of
kanone .
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East diatyposeis (constitutions, statutes); those concerned with discipline were termed kanones (canons, rules), often with the addition of tes eutaxias (of discipline, or good order).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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(Gk. nomoi, "laws", kanones, "canons"), containing not only ecclesiastical laws but also imperial laws pertaining to the same matters.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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Mr. Leaf used to explain the [Greek: kanones] (XIII. 407) as "serving to attach the two ends of the baldrick to the shield"
Homer and His Age Andrew Lang 1878
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Like the rabbis, again, he suggests definite rules of interpretation which may always be applied [Greek: kanones tês allêgorias]. [
Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria Norman Bentwich 1927
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Like the rabbis, again, he suggests definite rules of interpretation which may always be applied [Greek: kanones tes allegorias]. [
Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria Bentwich, Norman 1910
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[Footnote: In the interior of some shields, perhaps of all, were two [Greek: kanones] (VIII 193;
Homer and His Age Andrew Lang 1878
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